My second poetry pamphlet, girlhoof, is published by Salò Press very soon!
You can now preorder the pamphlet directly from Salò, to be shipped in June 2024.
About girlhoof
girlhoof is a work of acid-pink monstrosity taking a tour through bodies and disembodiment. Trying on the subject positions of animals, ghosts and crowds, Flo Reynolds asks how objectification might be subverted through mischief as method. These poems hold girlhood and its discontents in all their strangeness and rage, with both tenderness and a knowing wink.
The pamphlet is part of Salò Press’ Flirtations series. It is 26 pages in length, with cover art by Jazzberry Blue.
What people are saying about girlhoof
“These hungry, hopeful poems are questing for their new and necessary forms. Following the beauties of sound and sense, Flo Reynolds makes new shapes, new words, new meanings in the push to describe what’s real, what’s really felt. These are lyrics for anyone bewitched by the world and wanting to cast their own spells on it.” – Harry Josephine Giles
“Brilliant. Inventive. Ingenious. With humour and delicacy, Flo Reynolds reacquaints us with the body, viewing its ruptures, excrescences, flora, fauna and squidgy bits from weird and illuminating angles. An adventure in material, girlhoof is a humbling read and utterly delightful.” – Cat Woodward
Read and listen to poems from the book
Some of the poems in girlhoof have been previously published in the following magazines, journals and anthologies:
- ‘poltergeist’ in Propel #8 (2023) – read and listen here
- ‘magic fortune fish’ in Fruit #4 (2021) – read and listen here
- ‘in the shell’ in Datableed #11 (2019) – read it here
- ‘i’m a riddle…’ in Modern Queer Poets (London: Pilot Press, 2019)
- ‘elbow’ in Magma #73 (2019);
- ‘her fingerhold fire’ in Haverthorn #4.2 (2018);
- ‘hawkmoth’ in Magma #68 (2016).
A book is a team effort
girlhoof wouldn’t exist without the visionary editorship of Sophie and Andrew at Salò. It’s a pleasure to be published by this small but mighty and truly original press. Thank you to Andrew and Sophie for all their creativity and careful attention in bringing girlhoof to life.
My thanks to Josie and Cat for kindly supplying cover quotes and for their support.
And thanks also to the editors who first gave the poems homes in journals and magazines: Harry Josephine Giles; Tawseef Khan, Hannah Levene and Tom White; Eleanor Perry and Juha Virtanen; Richard Porter; Ella Frears and Richard Scott; Andrew Wells, and David Floyd and Lucy Howard-Taylor.
Flo Reynolds 